Civil Rights Movement Test

African Americans secured passage of civil rights legislation by -

• electing African Americans to the United States Congress

• working through the court system and mass protests

• pushing for legislation through referendum

• conducting work stoppages around the country

Which Supreme Court case originally allowed for separate but equal facilities for black and white Americans?

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Brown v. Topeka Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

Which person served on the defense team for the NAACP in a landmark court case and went on to become the first African American appointed to the United States Supreme Court?

• Thurgood Marshall

• Oliver Hill

• William Randolph

• Edgar Meavers

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -

• promoted the election of African Americans to public office

• was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy

• led to the appointment of the first African American to the president's Cabinet

• prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender

To which court case does this headline refer?

• Brown v. Topeka Board of Education

• Loving v. Virginia

• Heart of Atlanta v. United States

• Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education

 

Which of these events best completes this diagram?

• Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Brown v. Board of Education Decision

• Passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Bakke v. the California Board of Regents Decision

Which of the following represents a pair of correctly matched ideas and people in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement?

• Julian Bond - Black Power

• Malcolm X - Non-violent Protest

• Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Disobedience

• Rosa Parks - Conversion to the Nation of Islam

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made segregation illegal in -

• housing

• churches

• private universities

• public accommodations

During the 1963 March on Washington, what speech did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. give that inspired participants?

• "I've Been to the Mountaintop"

• "Birmingham Jail"

• "Black Power"

• "I Have a Dream"

So the registrar [at the circuit clerk's office] gave me the sixteenth section of the Constitution of Mississippi. He pointed it out in the book and told me to look at it and...interpret what I had read. That was impossible. I had tried to give it, but I didn't even know what it meant, much less interpret it.

 

— Fannie Lou Hamer

This practice was outlawed with the passage of the —

• 19th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965